Grain-elevating device for harvesting-machines.



No 763,854; PATENTED JUN-E 28, 1904. A. GASTELIN.

GRAIN BLEVATIN-G DEVICE FOR HARVESTING MACHINES. ABPLIULTI-ON- FILED DBO. 22, 1902. no onnn. Hams-sum 1.

206%ze6666/ ll7ZVf/ZZJ/Y No. 763,854. Patented June 28, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDRE oAsTELIN, E PARIS, FRANCE, ssIeNoR TO sooIETE ANoNY E DETUDES ET DEXPLOITATION DEs BREVETS A. oAsTELIN POUR MA- oHINEs AGRICOLES AUTOMOBILES, OF PARIS, FRANoE.

GRAIN-ELEVATING DEVICE FOR HARVESTING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,854, dated June 28, 1904.

Original application filed January 9, 190 2, Serial No. 89,085. Divided and this application filed December 22, 1902. Serial No.136,239. (N0 model.)

T0 whom it y Concern! ingdevice cantransport the grain from the end- Be it known that I, ANDRE GASTELIN, enless apron 1 upon the table 2, where the sheaf gineer, a citizen of the French Republic, reis formed. Between the tableZ and the apron siding at Paris, France, (and having post- 1 is arranged a channel through which the 5 oflice address 17 Rue St. Florentin, in said grain ascends through the medium of the elecity, have invented certain new and useful vating device, and the channel is formed by Improvements in Grain-Elevating Devices for two sheets of suitable material, preferably Harvesting-Machines, of which the following metal, one of which is designated by the refis a specification. erence character 3 and depends from the table IO This invention relates to certain new and 2 and the other of which is designated by the useful improvements in grain-elevating dereference character 4 and is suitably secured vices for harvesting-machines, and is a divia sufficient distance away from the sheet 3 to sion of the application Serial No. 89,085, filed a fixed part of the harvesting-machine. January 9, 1902. The grain-elevating device consists of a se- 5 The invention aims to construct a grainries of truncated shafts 5, extending in the elevating device for harvesters which is adaptsame axial direction and mounted in bearings ed to receive the grain when operating at a 6, which extend from one end of the machine very low initial velocity, elevating the grain to the other. The shafts 5 are provided with 5 when the device is operating at an increasing the crank-arms 7 and 8, which form an angle 20 speed, and depositing the grain upon a binderof one' hundred and eighty degrees with retable when the device has almost no speed. spect to each other. The crank-arms 7 are The invention further aims to construct a connected together in pairs by means of the grain elevating device for harvestingmashafts 9, and the crank-arms 8 are connected 7 chines which shall be extremely simple in its together in pairs by means of the shafts 10. 5 construction, strong, durable, eflicient in its Articulated on the shafts 9 and 10 are the eleuse, and comparatively inexpensive to set up. vating-arms 11 and 12, respectively. The rear With the foregoing and other objects in ends of the arms 1.1 are articulated to the links view the invention consists of the novel com- 14, and the rear ends of the arms 12 are articu- 7 5 bination and arrangement of parts hereinafter lated to the links 13. The links 13 let are 3 more specifically described, illustrated in the mounted upon the axles 15, which turn in the accompanying drawings, and particularly bearings 16. pointed out in the claim hereunto appended. When the outer shaft 5 is set in continuous In describing the invention in detail refermotion through the medium of the shaft 17 once is had to the accompanying drawings, operating by the gear-wheels 19 and 19 the 35 forming a part of this specification, wherein shaft 17 being operated by the gear-wheels like reference characters denote correspond- 78 and 19, to which motion is imparted by the ing parts throughout the several views, and main shaft 17 of the machine, it is obvious in which that the whole articulated system will then be 8 5 Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in secset in motion and that the ends of the elevat- 4 tion, of the elevating device. Fig. 2 isa front ing-arms will describe a trajectory, as shown view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a portion of the by the curved dotted line 20, Fig. 1. elevating device in perspective. It will be evident that owing to the ar- Referring to the drawings by reference rangement of the crank-arms 7 and 8 the characters, 1 denotes the endless apron of a group of elevating-arms 12 will receive mo- 45 harvesting-machine and which is adapted to tion differing in one hundred and eighty deconvey the grain to the elevating device, to be grees with respect to the motion of the group hereinafter referred to, so that the said elevatof elevating-arms 11. When the device is operated, the elevating-arms at the lower part of the trajectory or curve which they describe then nearly the same until they arrive at the upper part of the trajectory, where their speed decreases. The direction of travel of the arms ,is then changed, so that they will descend to the bottom of the trajectory 0r curve and then move forwardly and upwardly to receive the grain. Owing to the foregoing operation, the grain is sized by the elevating-arms at the rear of the endless band or apron 1 (the latter is operated by the chain and chain-wheel 21 and 22) and is elevated through the channel between the plates 3 and 4 onto the table 2, where the grain accumulates and from which the sheaf is formed. It may be stated that the speed of the elevating-arms 11 and 12 at the base of the curve or trajectory 20 is very slow and then gradually increases, so that the grain is gently taken hold of and raised with an in- ANDRE OASTELIN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD P. MAGLEAN, EMILE KLoTZ. 

